IP: Another Anotherpoint of view on More on With Stock as Bait, Microsoft Lures Elite Professors

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

I was about to send out a similiar note so here is Craigs instead djf


> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: Re: IP: Anotherpoint of view on More on With Stock as Bait, Microsoft Lures Elite Professors 
> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 11:43:20 -0700
> From: Craig Partridge <craig () aland bbn com>
>
>
> [Dave -- for IP if you think useful]
>
> Re: Stock as Bait
>
> There's a point here that I think some of the posters are missing.
>
> When a researcher moves from academia to industry, in almost all cases,
> that researcher stops teaching.  And many of the folks we are watching
> come to industrial facilities are top teachers.  When an outstanding
> instructor leaves, typically hundreds of undergraduates and tens of
> graduate students EACH YEAR are getting a less good education.
>
> Those students are precisely the people that industry is relying
> on to provide technical leadership at the project level a few years
> later.
>
> Some loss of researchers each year is inevitable. Indeed, it can be
> healthy -- as some folks noted, researchers want to make an impact, and
> sometimes that impact is best made in industry.  But there's a perception
> that the pace at which researchers, especially senior people who seemed
> happily settled in academia, are leaving teaching has increased.
>
> Craig Partridge
> Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies
> Consulting Asst Professor, Stanford University